Art & Creativity Sayings

419 sayings found from 419 authors

We are beginning to see that the problem is not to free men, but to design the kind of culture in which they will be naturally good.

— B.F. Skinner 1971
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

— William James 1890
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

— Diogenes c. 350 BCE
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The most part of all your princes have more delight in warlike matters and the feats of hunting than in the good arts of peace.

— Thomas More 1516
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The desire to write grows with writing.

— Erasmus 1504
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We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.

— Blaise Pascal 1670 (posthumous)
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Imagine shooting a man with your last bullet, and he stands there UNFAZED.

— Andrew Tate Undated, post-social media bans
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Novelty is not innovation.

— Edmund Burke 1791
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The eye cannot endure the sight of the absolute, so it creates a perspective.

— Georg Simmel 1916
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Individual consciousness is only a part of the collective consciousness.

— Emile Durkheim 1912
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The noblest art is that of making others happy.

— P.T. Barnum Late 19th Century
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Writing is the disappearance of the subject.

— Jacques Derrida 1967
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No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

— Houdini Early 20th century
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Modernity: we created a system where people are judged by their ability to tell stories rather than by their ability to deliver results.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2020
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

— Simone Weil 1947 (posthumous)
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The future is not something to be predicted, but something to be created.

— Paulo Freire 1992
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

— Rumi 13th Century
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The greatest music has no sound; the greatest form has no shape.

— Zhuangzi c. 4th century BCE
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

— Mencius c. 4th-3rd century BCE
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If music be the food of love, play on.

— William Shakespeare c. 1601-1602
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